Vehicle Logger

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Project description

The goal of the vehicle logger is to collect data from the vehicle to be able to say something about the driving style and performance of the vehicle. With a GPS sensor the time and location and velocity of the car are recorded. A 3-axis gyroscope and 3-axis acceleration sensor is supported to be able to detect rotational speeds and accelerations on the vehicle chassis. Finally the OBD-connector of the car is used to read engine specific data. All the data is stored onto a micro-SD card.

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What hardware do you need


SN65HVD230.JPG MPU6500.jpg GPSLoggerShield.jpg

Building the vehicle logger

The vehicle logger has four functions: GPS, OBD2, 6 DoF sensor and logging all the data to an SDcard


Possible extensions

With the addition of a steering angle sensor it will be possible to calculate the slip angle of the tires and it can be calculated whether the car is over-steering or under-steering.


The first step is to read out the 6DoF sensor, the MPU6500.